This is one ex-squid who will go to the mat for our Gunny!I wouldn't come in as a GUEST on his forum and be starting trouble if I were you.

Now, on a lighter note, I haven't seen DAGON in years. I may have to give it another watch. I remember really enjoying it.

Or what?

Andrew's a big boy.

I see you registered, gloomhound. Welcome to the forum. We're not really big on personal attacks and fights here. Stick around, though. Enjoy the discussions of bad movies. If you found the site through the Dagon review, I think you'll find some good reasons to stick around.

Logged

Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill.

For my part I made my post with an eye toward humor and with no ill intent.

As for this site, I have been a fan for years and a fan of bad movie for far longer. I carry the scars of a true aficionado. As a child I was take to the movies and allowed to pick the movie I wanted to see. I chose "The Crater Lake Monster" over a little movie you might have heard of called "Star Wars"*

"Grizzly", "Empire of the Ants", and "Prophecy" all I spent my hard earned paper route money to see.

I watched "Hawk the Slayer" in the theater...twice....on purpose.

I took a date to see "TerrorVision" and this was a girl I really liked!

I even almost watch all of a few Sci-Fi Channel movies all the way though...almost.**

So I've been around and I hope that I might fit right in around here.

*True story** Ok I'll admit it I like Sci-Fi Channel movies. Sure I haven't made it to the end credits of Anonymous Rex yet. But I will as soon as my therapist says I'm healthy enough to try again.

I have never read Lovecraft books but it would be cool to see how these stories were actually written.

An important thing to know about Lovecraft is that he rarely employs dialogue. He only wrote dialogue in The Dunwich Horror and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Even in those brief instances, you could tell that he sucked at dialogue. So most of his stories consist of solid narrative broken up by the occasional monologue.

Been a long time viewer to this site and love it but this is the first time Ive commented and Ill try to rectify that in the future, but anyways....here we go. That mermaid porn film you were talking about? It existed in the 70's, It was called Gums which i guess was a shot at some shark movie making the rounds about that time(hee hee). Look it up if you can. Definitely bad fun. Andrew .. been a bad movie afficionado for more years then I can count and I love the site. Keep up the good work!

Having read and enjoyed most of H. P. Lovecraft's short stories, I can attest to the difficulty of taking his vision from the page to the screen. This is one of the few that I've seen that gets it right. That's one reason to see it.

The other reason to see it is Francisco (Paco) Rabal's performance as Ezequiel. (IMHO) One of the best performances I've ever seen in a horror films. Unfortunately, he'd only have one more screen appearance, before his death in 2001. R.I.P. Paco.

It was directed by Stuart Gordon, who has had a more success in making Lovecraftian movies than anyone else that comes to mind. I really have to recommend The Resurrected to anyone who likes a good movie adaptation of Lovecraft.

I have never read Lovecraft books but it would be cool to see how these stories were actually written.

An important thing to know about Lovecraft is that he rarely employs dialogue. He only wrote dialogue in The Dunwich Horror and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Even in those brief instances, you could tell that he sucked at dialogue. So most of his stories consist of solid narrative broken up by the occasional monologue.

Lovecraft's true skill was in causing his readers to conjure up unspeakable horrors. That's why I have always enjoyed his works. They lay out some foundations, then put it upon me to populate the story with its various denizens. It's also a reason that making a Lovecraft story into a film is so difficult, because you have to show something to the audience.

Been a long time viewer to this site and love it but this is the first time Ive commented and Ill try to rectify that in the future, but anyways....here we go. That mermaid porn film you were talking about? It existed in the 70's, It was called Gums which i guess was a shot at some shark movie making the rounds about that time(hee hee). Look it up if you can. Definitely bad fun. Andrew .. been a bad movie afficionado for more years then I can count and I love the site. Keep up the good work!

Good Lord ..Youve found it! LOL! I actually saw this when a local mom and pop video store placed it in their comedy section not knowing any better. I got quite a shock out of it. When the store when out of business they were selling off their

stock but alas, I never saw it there. I asked the owner about it but he said he didnt know what I was talking about. Dirty old man probably kept it for himself. Sure wish i had it now. I beleive its worth a chuck of change in good condition.

Should I ever find myself in a strange town, running away from a mob of murderous villagers, I am going to look for a homeless drunk or a pommel horse.

HAHAHAHAAAAA!!! I would absolutely pay to see Kurt Thomas try to pommel-horse his way out of a Lovecraftian situation!

I absolutely love "Dagon." I wouldn't necessarily call it a bad movie, though I do have to admit that while it is one of the best of the H. P. Lovecraft adaptations, when compared to the broader genre of horror it probably doesn't hold up. Ezra Godden brings a very Jeffrey Combs-esque feel to the main character, in keeping with Lovecraft's habit of putting utterly ordinary people into indescribably horrible situations--before seeing them dead or damned. I particularly love the attention to detail on the "Eye of Dagon" tunnel in the sea floor.

Couldn't finish it. Couldn't make it past the point where he knows an angry fish-man-mob are about to break down his door in the hotel, so he unscrews the microscopic deadbolt off of an adjacent door, then screws it on the entrance door to his room. I guess it seemed like a good idea to him. His response when the angry fish mob start beating on his door? "What's your problem!?"

If it was Jeffery Combs I would have probably made it through the whole thing.

:hot:A terrific movie which only lacks the appearance of Cthulhu or any of the other Great Old Ones (such as HeWhoCannotBeNamed). The ending is horrific and left me rather in shock for a while (not as much as the Mist but close). I watched on Sci-Fi Channel so it was badly cut (such as the arms remaining) but I have ordered it with the above handy dandy icon and hope to have it before I dream of having my male parts chewed to pieces by a tentacled maiden.

I was interested in watching a bad movie one night and I watched 'Dagon'.It's really not that horrible. The makeup is awesome, the sets are great, and just the all around atmosphere is creepy as hell.The dialogue is crappy and there are stupid moments.But it's not awful, it's definitely watchable.

Logged

“I’m gonna live a rockstar life. Money, b***hes, and fame. Because my mommy said I can do anything I put my mind to.”

Hey Andrew - Really good review I laughed at the Gymkata reference at the beginning. As a matter of fact, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is my favorite H.P. Lovecraft story. Macarena Gómez was definitely hot. (check her out on: youtube - "Macarena Gomez Speaks!" ). Anyway, I felt that "Dagon" captured the spirit of Lovecraft's story more than just about any other screen adaptation. Well done, sir...